The Fit
Seventy years in, you run two trades under one roof: a logging operation and a road-construction division, with the fleet and the workforce to match. Your insurance should be coordinated the same way, built and managed in one place by a broker who understands the woods, not stitched together line by line.
Forest operations, log haul, and road construction each carry exposures a generalist underwrites by guesswork. We work these lines as a discipline, from logging Workers' Comp to heavy-equipment inland marine, the way an operation like yours needs.
Workers' Comp, commercial auto, general liability, inland marine, property, and umbrella spread across two trades and 100+ people. We coordinate all of it as a single program, so coverage is not assembled from separate placements with separate gaps.
Seventy years, multiple generations, employees who have stayed thirty years and more. Team Haugen is family-led, with HUB's Oregon roots behind it. Relationships and respect for what you have built carry weight here, and that is how we work.
Local people who know southern Oregon timber, backed by HUB's national specialty markets for transportation, Workers' Comp, and environmental risk. The reach of a national broker, delivered by a team that knows the ground.
Your Operation
Seventy years of harvesting and road building across southern Oregon's Coast Range and Umpqua drainage, run as two trades under one roof. Here is how we read the operation, and the exposure that comes with it.
Timber Harvesting
Cat, mechanical, and cable sides, high lead, log span skyline, and cut-to-length thinning, run across as many as eleven logging sides at once in the Coast Range and Umpqua drainage. The range of systems is the competitive edge, and it is also a broad, hazardous Workers' Comp and equipment exposure to underwrite well.
Road Construction & Excavation
A separate division launched in the early 1970s and expanded into public works in 1985, building roughly 20 to 25 miles of new road a year at peak, with major excavation and development capability. Road and public works add a general liability and environmental profile a pure logger never carries.
The Fleet
Eleven power units and six CDL drivers, DOT-registered, hauling logs, poles, and heavy machinery between the woods, the yard, and the mills. Loaded log haul is one of the highest-severity transportation exposures in commercial insurance.
One Operation, Two Trades
Harvest and road build under one roof, with 100+ employees and seventy years of history, means a liability footprint significantly wider than a typical contract logger. The program has to account for both trades and the way exposure moves between them.
Workers' Compensation
Logging sits among the highest-hazard Workers' Comp classifications in the country, and you run 100+ people across cutting, cabling, road work, and equipment operation. This is the line that moves your program, and it deserves a broker who treats logging WC as a specialty, not a side note.
The highest-hazard class codes carry the experience modification and loss-control scrutiny that decide your premium. We work logging Workers' Comp as a dedicated discipline, building the program around how crews actually work in the woods.
Safety record and experience mod are the story carriers price on. We bring the loss-control and claims work that keeps a hazardous-class program defensible, and we make the case to the markets that underwrite it well.
Cutting, cabling, road building, and equipment operation each carry their own exposure. We classify and structure the program around the real work, so the people who keep the operation running are covered the way they should be.
A program this hazardous deserves more than a single default placement. HUB's scale opens the specialty Workers' Comp markets that compete on loss control and experience, where an operation with your history can be placed on its merits.
Fleet & Transportation
Eleven power units and six CDL drivers hauling logs, poles, and heavy machinery on interstate routes. Log haul is one of the most severe transportation exposures there is, and it belongs in a program that reads it as transportation risk, not a generic commercial auto line.
Loaded log trucks on forest roads and interstate routes carry catastrophic-severity potential. We place the fleet with carriers who underwrite transportation risk directly and structure limits for the worst day, not the average one.
A DOT-registered interstate fleet lives or dies on its compliance and safety posture. We bring the fleet-safety and motor-carrier discipline that keeps the program clean and gives underwriters a reason to compete.
Yarders, feller-bunchers, and heavy machinery travel between yard, jobsite, and the woods. We make sure the line between auto, owned equipment, and inland marine is drawn deliberately, with no gap where the exposure actually sits.
HUB's Transportation practice and market scale open the specialty auto and trucking carriers a generalist cannot reach, the difference between a log fleet placed well and placed piecemeal.
Additional Coverages
Beyond Workers' Comp and the fleet, an operation that harvests and builds road carries lines that have to be coordinated, not placed in isolation. These are the coverages we build around the core.
Your Team
The people who build and run your program. A family-led team with the depth of a national broker behind it.
SVP, Commercial Lines / Team Haugen Lead
Associate Advisor, Commercial Lines
Associate Advisor, Commercial Lines
Private Client Risk Advisor
Private Client Risk Advisor
Vice President, Workers' Compensation
Workers' Compensation Claims Analyst
Insurance Adjuster
Client Services Advisor
CL Sr. Account Manager
CL Account Manager II
CL Account Manager II
CL Account Manager II
Sr. Risk Management Consultant
CL Account Manager
CL Account Manager
Huffman & Wright Logging
Bring us the operation as it actually runs: the harvest, the road division, the fleet, and the crews who have been here for decades. We will show you what a coordinated program looks like across all of it, built by people who understand southern Oregon timber. Reach Logan Haugen and the team to start the conversation.
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